Elias presents the full implication of our mission on Sunday afternoon. Not in the library this time — in Mira’s kitchen, because the kitchen has a table big enough for all the documents and because Mira is in the front room watching television and intentionally avoid the kitchen, has apparently decided that her role in my life right now is to provide support without interference. I appreciate this more than I’ve told her. All five of them are here. The kitchen was not designed for seven people and five of those people being wolves makes the space feel even more compressed, but nobody complains about the space because nobody is paying attention to the space. They are paying attention to the chart Elias has pinned to the wall above the kitchen table using the four thumbtacks he brought in

